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Page 200 of the DMG states:

If the spell is on your class's spell list you can use an action to read the scroll and cast its spell

So if a wizard were to pick up a spell scroll containing a wizard spell, the wizard would be able to identify it

Later in the same paragraph it also states:

Otherwise, the scroll is unintelligible.

So if the wizard were to pick up a sorcerer spell,the wizard wouldn't be able to read it.
In conclusion if the spell is on the reader's spell list then the reader would be able to identify it.